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| Venue | Trafalgar Park, Nelson on 22nd, 23rd December 1979 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Marlborough won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | B Dennison, M Rangi |
| Close of play day 1 | Marlborough (1) 292/6 (Aberhart 118*, Columbus 19*) |
| Marlborough first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JJ MacDonald | c Tasker b Gill | 20 | 82 | 3 | - | ||
| DIA Cameron | run out | 33 | 178 | 2 | - | ||
| CR Anderson | c Schwass b Adams | 49 | 160 | 8 | - | ||
| JJ Cunliffe | b Tasker | 12 | 29 | 2 | - | ||
| RI Thomas | c Edwards b Tasker | 4 | 13 | 1 | - | ||
| AJ Marfell | c Hodgson b Gill | 25 | 84 | 5 | - | ||
| *DC Aberhart | c Jones b Abbott | 123 | 165 | 22 | 3 | ||
| KW Columbus | b Abbott | 25 | 111 | 3 | - | ||
| RL Thomas | not out | 0 | 9 | - | - | ||
| +GJ Adams | did not bat | ||||||
| GR Logan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 5 lb, 5 nb) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 419 minutes, 131.3 overs) | 306 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-37 (MacDonald), 2-100 (Cameron), 3-123 (Cunliffe), 4-129 (RI Thomas), 5-135 (Anderson), 6-188 (Marfell), 7-306 (Aberhart), 8-306 (Columbus, 131.3 ov) | |||||||
| Nelson bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gill | 33 | 14 | 58 | 2 | - | - | |
| Abbott | 26.3 | 7 | 95 | 2 | - | 5 | |
| Adams | 42 | 26 | 62 | 1 | - | - | |
| Tasker | 26 | 12 | 60 | 2 | - | - | |
| Toynbee | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Pierce | 3 | 1 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Nelson first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BG Schwass | b RL Thomas | 2 | - | - | |||
| RA Pierce | lbw b RL Thomas | 30 | 3 | - | |||
| MH Toynbee | c Logan b RL Thomas | 4 | - | - | |||
| AH Jones | c Adams b Aberhart | 47 | 152 | 7 | - | ||
| +GN Edwards | c and b Aberhart | 109 | 193 | 16 | 2 | ||
| SD Adams | c Cunliffe b RL Thomas | 28 | 4 | - | |||
| WG Hodgson | b Aberhart | 14 | 3 | - | |||
| *TB Horne | not out | 6 | - | - | |||
| SJ Gill | c Adams b Aberhart | 2 | - | - | |||
| SA Tasker | not out | 4 | 1 | - | |||
| SJ Abbott | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 3 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, 109 overs) | 255 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Schwass), 2-11 (Toynbee), 3-69 (Pierce), 4-107 (Jones), 5-202 (Adams), 6-237 (Hodgson), 7-242 (Edwards), 8-248 (Gill) | |||||||
| Marlborough bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Aberhart | 35 | 15 | 54 | 4 | - | 1 | |
| RL Thomas | 32 | 15 | 72 | 4 | - | 3 | |
| MacDonald | 21 | 5 | 60 | 0 | - | 2 | |
| Cameron | 10 | 6 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Logan | 11 | 3 | 51 | 0 | - | - | |